Elif Safak Quotes
I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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California is an unbelievable state.
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Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?
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I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all extremist ideologies are very similar.
